Dan Howard
CEO & Co-Founder, ProvisionIQ
Dan founded ProvisionIQ after 15 years shaping how the UK funds and delivers education at scale — from skills policy to SEND reform. He has worked directly with senior officials across the DfE, DWP and Skills England, not as a consultant presenting recommendations but as someone responsible for delivering them.
Before ProvisionIQ, he held executive and board roles managing portfolios above £50m, running large publicly-funded programmes in apprenticeships, employability and EdTech. He has led Ofsted-regulated providers through inspection and has a track record of turning policy intent into operational delivery that actually works.
He has chaired a school governing board for over ten years. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, the Institute of Employability Professionals, and the Royal Society of Arts.
ProvisionIQ is built on a specific frustration: that the people closest to pupils with SEND — SENCOs, teachers, school leaders — are spending their time on administration that the system should be handling for them. Dan's job is to fix that.
Articles by Dan Howard
The pie isn't getting bigger. Just cut differently.
A new DfE consultation wants to hand mainstream schools upfront SEND funding by formula, instead of case by case. Dan Howard on why that could ease the EHCP bottleneck — or move money away from the children who need it most.
Nearly half a million children. Waiting. Without support. Parliament has noticed.
The Health and Social Care Committee has told the Health Minister that the diagnosis-first model is broken. With close to half a million children waiting for autism or ADHD assessments, Dan Howard sets out what it means for schools — and what they can do now.
The Efficiency Imperative
England's schools are caught between a £67bn budget that hasn't kept pace with costs, falling pupil rolls that will strip income from thousands of schools, and a SEND funding system consuming an ever-larger share of what remains. Dan Howard examines where the efficiency conversation needs to go next.
The Strategic SENCO
The 2026 Schools White Paper promises a SENCO role that is "more strategic and less administrative." But with just 6% of SENCOs completing their tasks within normal working hours, the ambition and the reality are in sharp conflict. Dan Howard examines what the reforms actually demand — and what schools need to do now.